Join Us In Thanking The Women Who Ran

Women are leading the resistance across the country, and one way they are fighting back is by stepping up to run for elected office. Win or lose, NOW-NYC is proud to have supported a cadre of strong women candidates dedicated to advancing equality and justice for women and girls.

We need pro-choice women to step up and run more than ever. After yesterday’s NYC primary results, women are likely to make up less than25% of our City Council. We need to take action NOW!

At the start of this year, Speaker Mark-Viverito and a number of women leaders in the

City Council united to launch 21 in ’21 – a campaign to substantially increase women’s representation by 2021. Last month, the Women’s Caucus released a report about women’s under-representation in government and some of the barriers and challenges unique to changing this.

NOW-NYC is committed to supporting this change (and to keeping anti-women leaders out of office, too.) If you want to join us to help more women get elected – here are three things you can do right now: